[R-sig-Geo] temp directory not actually reset by rasterOptions()

[Michael Sumner]

FYI It's also important to set the max size for raster,  default is way too
low:

https://discuss.ropensci.org/t/how-to-avoid-space-hogging-raster-tempfiles/864

On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, 01:25 Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have problems with an small /tmp partition
> and thought using
> rasterOptions(tmpdir="/home/alobo/provi")
>
> Nevertheless, this has no effect, and temp raster files keep growing
> in the default directory within /tmp
>
> Is this a bug?
>
> Thanks
> Agus
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.3.3 (2017-03-06)
> Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
> Running under: Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
>  [4] LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
> LC_ADDRESS=C
> [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] raster_2.5-8 sp_1.2-5
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] rgdal_1.2-11    parallel_3.3.3  tools_3.3.3     Rcpp_0.12.12
> grid_3.3.3
> [6] lattice_0.20-35
>
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Dr. Michael Sumner
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